That iPhone 8 (plus) was like 750. So like a hundred a year. I literally am the person than spends less on phones out of my entire social circle.
Edit: also I’ve had three android (not so) cheap phones—one handed down to me, previous to the iPhone 4, that I had for a few months. And my current and former work phones, provided by my company—and hated (still hating the current one) the hell out of them, utter trash full of ads and uninstallable spyware.
I ain’t no apple fan, but my old iPhone 8—which is now my sister’s work phone since one year ago—just received a security patch a couple months ago, eight years after it was bought. And yes I went with an iPhone 16, because only two phones in 14-15 years (iPhone 4, 8, and now 16) is something no other brand can currently compete with. Unpopular here, I know, but I don’t care about a jack port (my android work phone has one and its only function is to build up pocket dust), or sideloading (I don’t even ‘sideload’ much in my laptops, almost everything comes from the official repositories).
I really hope the phone landscape changes and, in six years or so, I can buy a proper FOSS phone, but I’m not holding my breath.
We probably kill insects just by walking, but it’s not reasonable to never move again to avoid that.
There’s this Hindu sect whose adherents wear veils, sweep the floor before them, and/or tread very slowly and carefully to avoid injuring, killing or eating any small insects. As you said, it’s about doing as much as you can, but if it were a competition they’d win for sure.
Who would build those robots? With which materials? No one is going into the mines or into a soul crushing factory production line if their needs are already met. If this survey were made to retail workers, for example, I bet it would be much closer to 100%. We aren’t getting ubi ever, not in our current society, because it literally would collapse in a few days without miserable, desperate fuckers that can’t afford quitting slowly killing ourselves to make the rich richer.
First, I cannot grow trees in my small rented flat. And felling trees and turning them into paper is quite a hard work, it’s only cheap at an industrial scale and it kinda fucks up the environment a bit. Paper used to be an expensive commodity (people would wrote letters like this).
The properties that make gold expensive are its limited supply, as you pointed, and the fact that it doesn’t degrades with time, which make it a great material to use to ‘store value’. It has some other interesting physical properties that make it useful, but those aren’t the main reasons of its price.
Paper has many uses as well.
People here saying single handle faucets must have much better ones than what we’ve got where I’m from, no fucking chance of getting the same temperature again after shutting it. And the middle of it is extremely sensitive, it goes from 10% to 90% in like the middle two millimeters, and I think the pressure of the hot water overcomes the cold’s so you have to turn a bit left and then right again to stabilize the temp.
For my shower, which is the one that matters most for me, I got a thermostatic one—you set the temperature on the right handle and the flow on the left one, and that’s it, perfect temperature forever. Even if someone flushes, which only happens when my sister is visiting because she doesn’t understand boundaries, it doesn’t change one whole degree for more than a second, only the flow is be affected.
As a side note my grandma’s bath tube some 30+ years ago (it had probably another 30 or more) had two handles for hot-cold, left and right, and then another two for the shower-faucet flow, up and down. It wasn’t as fine tuned as my modern one, but worked quite well. You would only open or shut without touching the proportion of hot/cold.
Japanese gooners instantly aroused.
Given you use them often, I would go for professional earplugs. Anything above €25~30 would be infinitely more comfortable than disposable ones, and you would still be able to understand people talking to you. If you feel extra fancy and have the cash (€150+) there’re some you can adjust the level of attenuation so you could use them at a concert as well as, let say, the super market.
No secret at all that the rich are selling Europe piece by piece to the best bidder, with the blessing of our rulers.
That article only cites deaths due to autoerotic asphyxiation, which I haven’t seen or heard portrayed in porn, and says that are mostly men, which contradicts the stated objective of preventing harm to women. Have you even read the source you linked or the article, mate?
Well, where are all those deaths caused by choking during sex because of porn? I would bet that many more visits to er are caused by trying to emulate the sex in the bath tube while having a couple wine glasses around scenes so typical in ‘romantic’ movies/shows, than by all the kinks seen in porn together.
Parents should, and I’m aware many do, tell their children that tv, movies, porn… are meant to entertain, not teach, and they are very different from how real life things work.
Only porn allowed will be missionary position?
No. I think it’s a step by step approach, that will go further than that. After only missionary, they’ll make the actors get married before having any sex, all under the blankets and as clothed as possible, no condom or pulling out allowed either, and at the end of the scene it has to show the beautiful baby born nine months after. No gay porn, of course, or trans, interracial, more than to people (man™️ and woman™️)… sex is for procreation! How you dare enjoying it, you sinner!
Even though, knowing how physics works, putting anything in orbit with only a cannon is not possible, no matter how powerful it is, I wholeheartedly agree we should try it with Elon anyway.
When I pour my dog’s food I tell her ‘yes! This is super rich and tasty food for very small, and very good, and very beautiful doggies! D’ya see? It says it right here (it doesn’t, actually, it only says it’s for small dogs but she can’t read), see? There’s even a picture! But this doggy isn’t as good, or as beautiful, or as small as my wee girl is, is it?’ And then I have to pet her, kiss her on the fore head, and point to her plate and say ‘come on! Do eat it!’ Or she just would keep staring at me like waiting.
I recognise their username. It’s half sane takes, half absolute wankery with them.
I’m actually very fit lol, the envy of all my friends and family.
I think the theatres around here have rules against outside food too, but they don’t pay their workers enough to go looking inside anyone’s handbag/backpack/knapsack wink wink.
Disclaimer: not a professional or expert in mental health, only experience is my own awful mess of a brain.
First, you don’t have any obligation to endure any shit from anyone and would be on the clear to get yourself out. That said, I want to give you a very different perspective from the rest of the comments here.
Reading your post I felt very identified with your girlfriend, tho I haven’t self-harmed and I’m self aware enough to have been straight forward with the partners I’ve had. When she says she’s getting the cat food, or she’s going to clean, or whatever, she actually means it, for real, but she’s unable to get herself to actually do it, or at least to do it in time. This is very anxiety inducing, trust me, or even better, don’t trust me and get some information on disorders that affect executive function, I’m suspecting adhd and/or social anxiety, but these usually come mixed with other several issues. Before anything she’s going to need a diagnosis, other comments are advising therapy, which for sure is necessary, but I don’t thing is gonna be enough, I’m afraid she’ll need also medication—your brain gets so out of balance that’s impossible to get it to work normally without adjusting its chemistry, if a ram or graphics card in your computer is broken no matter how many drivers you update, it’s going to still act up or crash.
Best of luck to both of you and, as I said, this is only your responsibility to the point you want it to be, but at least give my comment a thought or even show it to her, because she does need help.
Call me a fat fuck if you want, but I’ve brought a fried chicken bucket (from kfc or popeyes) to the movies many times, and still got the big popcorn and soda there as well. Also burger, kebab, pizza…
I don’t know what’s up with my fellow millennials in the comments. I do order food once or twice a week.
About the fees, there’s none if you order directly from the restaurant, and the apps/services that apply them (usually just one) take it out above a certain threshold, or looking into your email spam for of their ‘discount offers’, but the prices of the food are higher anyway (which I find more dishonest than simply charging a delivery fee).
Also, I only tip if it’s rainy or super-hot (the weather, not the food or the delivery person), because Europe.